Queen of Diamonds (Menkes, 1991): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.20pm
This film is part of the Nina Menkes season at BFI Southbank. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
One of the most jarringly original independent films of the
1990s, Nina Menkes’ lost underground classic reemerges in a gorgeous new
restoration. In a neon-soaked dream vision of Las Vegas, a disaffected
blackjack dealer (played by the director’s sister Tinka Menkes) drifts through
a series of encounters alternately mundane, surreal, and menacing, while death
and violence hover ever-present in the margins. Awash in lush, hallucinatory
images, Queen of Diamonds is a haunting study of female alienation
that “may become for America in the 90s what Jeanne Dielman was for
Europe in the 70s—a cult classic using a rigorous visual composition to
penetrate the innermost recesses of the soul”
Berenice Reynaud
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